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Documents from 2021

Limited Liability Company Handbook, 2014-2015 Edition, Mark Sargent and Walter D. Schwidetzky

Energy Efficiency: What has it Delivered in the Last 40 Years?, Harry D. Saunders, Joyashree Roy, Ines M L Azevedo, Debalina Chakravarty, Shyamasree Dasgupta, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Angela Druckman, Roger Fouquet, Michael Grubb, Boqiang Lin, Robert Lowe, Reinhard Madlener, Daire McCoy, Luis Mundaca, Tadj Oreszczyn, Steve Sorrell, David Stern, Kanako Tanaka, and Taoyuan Wei

Unilateral Burdens and Third-Party Harms: Abortion Conscience Laws as Policy Outliers, Nadia N. Sawicki

Bargaining in the Dark: The Need for Transparency and Data in Plea Bargaining, Andrea Kupfer Schneider and Cynthia Alkon

Our Criminal Legal System: Plagued by Problems and Ripe for Reform, Andrea Kupfer Schneider and Cynthia Alkon

Taking Misappropriation Seriously: State Common Law Disgorgement Actions For Insider Trading, Jeanne L. Schroeder

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wise Legal Giant, Thomas A. Schweitzer

A Comparison of Corporate Taxation in the United States and Germany: Different Ways Up the Mountain, Walter D. Schwidetzky

A Comparison of Partnership Income Taxation in the United States and Germany: A Study in Differences, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Complexity Cubed: Partnerships, Interest, and the Proposed Regs, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Foreign Taxation: The Section 367(e) Regulations -- No Place to Hide, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Hyperlexis and the Loophole, Walter D. Schwidetzky

In Defense of the PIP Regulations, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Integrating Subchapters K and S and Beyond, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Integrating Subchapters K and S — Just Do It, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Last Gasp Estate Planning: The Formation of Family Limited Liability Entities Shortly Before Death, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Options to Acquire Partnership Interests: Can the Tax Law Keep Pace?, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Partnership Tax Allocations: The Basics, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Proposed Regulations on Noncompensatory Options: A Light at the End of the Tunnel, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Tax Symposium: Subpart F, 1986 and Beyond, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Temporary and Proposed Section 752 Regulations: Progress or Regress?, Walter D. Schwidetzky

The Negative Capital Account Maze, Walter D. Schwidetzky

The Tax Benefits of Liabilities - Their Rise and Fall, Walter D. Schwidetzky

Understanding Taxation of Business Entities, Walter D. Schwidetzky and Fred B. Brown

Understanding Taxation of Business Entities, Walter D. Schwidetzky and Fred B. Brown

Can a State Attorney General Intervene in a Case to Defend a State Anti-Abortion Law after an Appellate Panel Struck the Law, When a Different Attorney General Previously Voluntarily Withdrew from the Case, Renounced Authority to Enforce the Law, and Agreed to Abide by the Court's Ruling? (20-601), 49 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 28 (2021), Steven D. Schwinn

Does California's Regulation That Affords Union Organizers a Limited Right to Access a Business Where Agricultural Employees Work Constitute a Per Se Taking of the Business Owner's Property? (20-107), 48 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 3 (2021), Steven D. Schwinn

Does the First Step Act of 2018 Allow Individuals Who Committed Low-Level Crack Offenses before 2010 to Move for a Reduction in Their Sentences? (20-5904), 48 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 2 (2021), Steven D. Schwinn

Does the Government's Invocation of the State Secrets Privilege Require Courts to Quash Subpoenas in Toto, when the Subpoenas Are Directed at Government Contractors for Both Concededly Privileged Information and for Information That Is Already Public? (20-827), 49 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 22 (2021), Steven D. Schwinn

Noncompetes and Other Post-Employment Restraints on Competition: Empirical Evidence from Trade Secret Litigation, Christopher B. Seaman

1608-71, Robert Z. Selden Jr.

1608-96, Robert Z. Selden Jr.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface 4078-13, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface 4078-14, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface 4078-14b, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface 4078-30, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface 4078-32, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface 4078-45, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface 4078-72, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface ET221-1016, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface ET221-1260a, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

41CE19 Gahagan Biface ET221-993, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

An Exploratory Network Analysis of the Historic Caddo Period in Northeast Texas, Robert Z. Selden Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

Louisiana Limitrophe: A Morphological Exegesis of Caddo Bottle Shape, Robert Z. Selden Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

Reverse Engineering a Bronze Cannon from the La Belle Shipwreck, Robert Z. Selden Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.

Considerations for Post-processing Parameters in Mixed-Method 3D Analyses, Robert Z. Selden Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.; Lauren N. Butaric; and Kersten Bergstrom

Shape as a function of time + raw material + burial context? An exploratory analysis of Perdiz arrow points from the ancestral Caddo area of the American Southeast, Robert Z. Selden Jr., John E. Dockall, C. Britt Bousman, and Timothy K. Perttula

Shape as a function of time + raw material + burial context? An exploratory analysis of Perdiz arrow points from the ancestral Caddo area of the American Southeast, Robert Z. Selden Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.; John E. Dockall; C. Britt Bousman; and Timothy K. Perttula

A quantitative assessment of intraspecific morphological variation in Gahagan bifaces from the southern Caddo area and central Texas, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A.; John E. Dockall; and Morgane Dubied

Reverse engineering a bronze cannon from the La Belle shipwreck, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A. and Bradford M. Jones

Reverse engineering a bronze cannon from the La Belle shipwreck, Robert Z. Selden , Jr., Ph.D., R.P.A. and Bradford M. Jones

Current Research: Index of Texas Archaeology Ceramic Comparative Collection, Robert Z. Selden Jr. and Timothy K. Perttula

Specialty Bar Associations and the Marketing of Ethics: The Example of the Academy of Adoption Attorneys, Malinda L. Seymore

Foreward, Ann Shalleck

Campus Policing & Student Activism for Black Lives, Heather Shea, Charles H.F. Davis III, Jude P. Dizon, Erin Corbett, and Jael Kerandi

Mistakes of Law and Limitation Periods, Duncan Sheehan

'Professional' Employers and the Transformation of Workplace Benefits, Natalya Shnitser

Law at Work: Legal Studies for Human Resources, Elaine W. Shoben, L. Camille Hebert, and Angela D. Morrison

Not My Problem? Landlord Liability for Tenant-on-Tenant Harassment, Aric Short

Medical Marijuana: Implications of Evolving Trends in Regulation, Florence Shu-Acquaye

The Changing Landscape of Asylum and Refugee Laws and Human Rights: The Diminishing Role of the United States?, Florence Shu-Acquaye

Charting the Influences on the Judicial Mind: An Empirical Study of Judicial Reasoning, Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise, and Andrew P. Morriss

The Grounds of Human Rights, Brian Slattery

Exploring Sectoral Solutions for Digital Workers: The Status of the Artist Act Approach, Sara Slinn

Whither Wagner? Reconsidering Labor Law and Policy Reform, Sara Slinn

“Avoiding” Judicial Activism: The Supreme Court’s Unconvincing Efforts to Restrict the Scope of the Avoidance Canon, Brian G. Slocum

Courts vs. the Political Branches: Immigration "Reform" and the Battle for the Future of Immigration Law, Brian G. Slocum

The Contribution of Linguistics to Legal Interpretation, Brian G. Slocum

Defund the Police? Mapping a Reform Agenda, Brenda V. Smith, Roy Austin, Cynthia E. Jones, and Fernando Laguarda

Welcoming remarks: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s presentation, “Challenges to the Protection of Human Rights in the 21st Century and the Role of the United Nations”, Brenda V. Smith and Claudio Grossman

Welcoming Remarks - Conversation with Former Judge of the International Court of Justice: Professor Thomas Buergenthal, Brenda V. Smith, Claudio Grossman, and Padideh Ala’i

Interview with Brenda V. Smith, Co-Lead Counsel for the Plaintiffs in Women Prisoners of D.C., Brenda V. Smith, Margo Schlanger, Sheila Bedi, David M. Shapiro, and Lynn S. Branham

Chapter 33: The Health Concerns of Incarcerated Women, Brenda V. Smith, Nairi M. Simonian, Jaime Yarussi, and Russ Immarigeon

2022 Gubernatorial Races to Watch, Mark Caleb Smith

A Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party, Mark Caleb Smith

A Divided Republican Party, Mark Caleb Smith

A New York Crisis, Mark Caleb Smith

Are Vaccine Mandates Constitutional?, Mark Caleb Smith

A Supreme Lean, Mark Caleb Smith

Biden Administration Announces Sweeping New Federal Vaccine Mandates, Mark Caleb Smith

Biden's Executive Orders & Ohio Senate Seat up for Grabs, Mark Caleb Smith

Biden's Inauguration and New Administration, Mark Caleb Smith

Bipartisan Deal for Border Wall, Mark Caleb Smith

Capitol Protests, Mark Caleb Smith

Chaos in the Capitol, Mark Caleb Smith

Chaos in the Capitol: Curfew in Effect in DC After Violent Protests, Mark Caleb Smith

Conflicts Rise on Ohio Response to Coronavirus: What Butler County Officials Say, Mark Caleb Smith

Congressional Redistricting, Mark Caleb Smith

Constitutional Concerns, Mark Caleb Smith

Controversial Georgia Voting Reform Bill, Mark Caleb Smith

Could the Equality Act Threaten Religious Liberties?, Mark Caleb Smith

COVID-19 Relief Bill: Stimulus Plan Impact on Families in the Miami Valley, Mark Caleb Smith

Dewine, Husted Merge, Mark Caleb Smith

First Day of Impeachment Hearings, Mark Caleb Smith

Former President Trump's Second Impeachment Trial: Likelihood of Trump Conviction, Mark Caleb Smith

Future of Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Republican Party, Mark Caleb Smith

Future of the Republican Party, Mark Caleb Smith

Georgia’s Ballot Box Blues: Intense Criticism Obscures the Reality of the State’s New Voting Law, Mark Caleb Smith

Georgia's Legislature Implements New Voting Regulations, Mark Caleb Smith

Health Leaders Are Uncertain of Herd Immunity, Mark Caleb Smith